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[21.10.52]
EGRET.  Home at 7.10 pm after
doing 192 miles for the day - tired dirty
and unshaven, and very pleased indeed 
to be home.
  It has been, on the whole a very
successful holiday. Max' earache and
subsequent illness, getting stuck at the Aire
R[iver], no new birds for the district, can be
balanced by fairly good weather, excellent
camping, good country, the Kites and
Pink Robins nests, the Satin Flycatcher
and a total list of 129 birds - a very
good total indeed. And I do now know
much more about the Otways, particularly
round the Cape, which was my intention.